On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Manfred Lotz <manfred.l...@arcor.de> wrote: > On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:08:53 -0700 > Leo Susanto <leosusa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> you should do >> >> print {$hdl} "a line\n"; >> >> instead of >> >> print $hdl "a line\n"; >> > > Thanks for this. Didn't know that. Why is this required? > It works also without {}. >
I just tested against Activestate Perl 5.10.1 and without {} works. I am probably quoting that based my experience on 5.6/5.8 (not 100% sure since I have deleted those older distros). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/